Stable Diffusion was finally enough to push me to install drivers for the NVIDIA 3060 on my laptop which has sat completely unused (never powered on once I figured out how to not power it on!) since I got it (I’d have preferred no dGPU at the time, but wanted other features of the laptop that are just about never sold without a fancy dGPU for some reason). Pretty hefty requirements, as a casual layman, even though I know this is smaller and more accessible than just about everything in the past. I think I ended up at around 9GB downloaded (which will cost me almost $2 in concrete terms) and 23GB of disk space used (including things like nvidia-dkms, nvidia-utils, cuda and python-pytorch-opt-cuda; all the relevant Arch packages came to about 14GB).
I’m having fun. But I haven’t had much luck getting it to draw the quick brown fox jumping over the lazy dog; a few steps in there are often the shapes of two animals, but it is consistently reduced to just a fox after a bit more. Extensions to the prompt (like reminding it that there are two animals, and trying to separate the two concepts) can improve it a bit, but it still tends to forget there are two animals, or if it gets two, to draw two foxes, or a dog–fox hybrid and a lazy fox. I imagine I could vastly improve my results with img2img and giving it a basic sketch with placeholders for two distinct animals.
It also has a surprisingly poor idea of what an echidna is.
I live in Australia in a rural area where the best internet connection I can get is on the Optus cellular network (I have clear line of sight to a tower 400m away used by fewer than 200 people; it’s actually the best non-commercial supply I’ve ever had for both speed and reliability, typically around 45/15Mbps five years ago when I moved to the area and with less than one observed downtime of less than one hour per annum, though where available NBN fibre should generally be able to be better these days). Actually, this is cheaper than it would often be, because it depends on what supplier I’m with at the time, which often depends on available introductory offers. My current arrangement amounts to 20¢/GB, the cheapest I’ve ever had (it’s interesting looking back even four years, when the best available was $0.90–$1.10/GB). When I finish the current one in a couple of months, it looks like I’ll switch again and be back to the ballpark I’ve had before, around 30¢/GB. Skip introductory offers, and you’re mostly at $0.60–$1.00/GB, or circles.life a bit lower but I refuse to use them again because of bad service and shameless illegal conduct that they refuse to acknowledge or do anything about (like sending third-party advertising text messages from CirclesLife, which has been illegal in the absence of explicit consent since the Spam Act 2003).
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i.e. Being a Murdoch cash cow milked by sycophantic weasels known as the Liberal Party.
Onion chump Abbott and his frenemy Turncoat being the main beneficiaries of forcing Murdoch's and Telstras decrepit copper/coax quagmire into what was originally designed as a full FttP rollout, already in progress 5% completed when they came into power and promptly halted everything to please their puppetmaster.
Next they promised to halve the costs by delivering a slow copper-throttled NBN. Except they blew out the budget by quadruple and still climbing... already over double the costa of the originally planned FttP rollout, so Murdoch got richer, and we get only 5% the speed we should have gotten... and now also pay double the monthly fees we would have had if those weasels had just kept their greasy pork barreling mitts off our nation building tax dollars </rant>
I’m using https://github.com/basujindal/stable-diffusion to run it since I only have 6GB of VRAM.
I’m having fun. But I haven’t had much luck getting it to draw the quick brown fox jumping over the lazy dog; a few steps in there are often the shapes of two animals, but it is consistently reduced to just a fox after a bit more. Extensions to the prompt (like reminding it that there are two animals, and trying to separate the two concepts) can improve it a bit, but it still tends to forget there are two animals, or if it gets two, to draw two foxes, or a dog–fox hybrid and a lazy fox. I imagine I could vastly improve my results with img2img and giving it a basic sketch with placeholders for two distinct animals.
It also has a surprisingly poor idea of what an echidna is.